Antiwork

“The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.” Yup. This is now.

My girlfriend was recently hired at a small company to build their quality management system. The CEOs want to go after FDA approval and that can’t happen without a QMS. Things started out really great, but soon people didn’t want to change the way they were doing things. It was more work and more accountability. This went from employees to even management started to circumvent the processes overriding the whole systems they wanted in place. Well, that in combination with a mask policy put in place by quality (management supported at the time 100%) did not make people very appreciative of her specifically but the whole team too. Other employees started taking her job and what she was asked to do by management personally and eventually now her personally. Her boss is two-faced. He wants to be friends with everyone, and when other people don’t like each other, you end…

This might be the wrong sort of area to ask for advice on my future, but I've recently been overwhelmed by my options for work and the stress of having to support myself within the next few years (normal stuff). Here's where I'm at: I'm 18 and currently in my first year, second semester of college. I had originally been planning to go towards being a PA, but quite frankly, it's become apparent to me that I am in no way smart enough or dedicated enough to earn that sort of degree. I could go into another medical field, but online learning being the standard for every medical class has been killing my motivation to learn anymore within that field. At this point, I'm not really sure where to go. I'm currently planning to maybe take some different types of classes, but I'm just gonna finish an associate of science…

So I was offered a job doing “piece rate” work at a fixed hourly rate of 13/hr plus 6 dollars commission for every 25 minute task I complete and 12 dollars commission for every 50 minute task completed. When I countered and asked to have the base rate raised to at least 14 (which is minimum wage for my area) they came back saying because it’s piece rate work, that it is not based on minimum wage. My question….is this legal? At the end of the day I would be making more than minimum wage most of my hours worked, but there are some instances like training where I will only be receiving the base rate (I.e. mandatorily coming in to be paid less than minimum wage). I am in desperate need of work but this seems kind of shady, and I don’t want to start off somewhere feeling conflicted.

I verbally agreed to a full time position, but i would be paid casually. I.e. no PTO or benefits at all, but a higher pay rate. They guaranteed me 35-40hrs and 11:30-7:30 shifts 5 days a week. This week i have 19hrs. Next week i have 13hrs. Not one of these shifts are 11:30-7:30, and half of them are in a second location i wasn't told about. Why can't i just up my pay rate without telling anyone? Why can't i just not show up? Why can't i just stop performing duties i agreed to? Because they hold me accountable. You can't hold these people accountable. The way it is is that i am a casual employee, and it just is this way. No further explanation other than saying other employees have it worse. Got an interview lined up tonight. Not starting there until i have some hours in writing,…

What if you invited your new employer to an interview with your family and friends to make sure they were worthy enough to be your employer. Turn the whole thing upside down